How to get rich overnight, as the old saying goes, read the criminal law.
In the past few days, all major short video platforms have been flooded by a "fake socialite" -
She relied on fraud to cheat her way from a slum girl to a "white turtle, rich and beautiful", and then became a wolf with nothing. Play around with Korea's upper class.
"People lie even in the diary they read to themselves."
With the monologue of "National First Love" Bae Suzy , the Korean drama "Anna" caught many people at the beginning:
This heroine turned out to be She is a wicked woman.
What is even rarer is that although there is also a small group of moral condemnation, public opinion is more enthusiastic, sympathetic and even admirable.
Comments like "It's so hot", "So inspiring", "She works really hard" can be seen everywhere.
Not only did the audience not hate her with itch, but they also worried about her while watching the drama.
is even more worried about her being exposed than the heroine herself.
At first glance, this is a walking fraud manual, a catchy counterattack drama.
However, after watching two episodes, I discovered that Anna is me.
Or to some extent, everyone is Anna.
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Fake socialite, real liar
If Anna’s life purpose could be described in one sentence, it would probably be the wealth code of Silicon Valley:
Fake it until you make it.
Her story is wonderful.
Under the recommendation of her senior sister, Anna attended the orientation meeting of Seoul National University. She introduced herself as a "returner from the United States who studied art and was born in a business family." She looked cute and polite.
But this is just her A side.
Her B-side is a big talker who is full of lies.
Anna’s life experience is false. In fact, she never graduated from high school, her mother is hearing-impaired, and her father is a tailor.
At that time, her name was Youmo, and she was indeed a top student. Her "love brain" caused her failure in the college entrance examination, and she hid the fact from her parents.
was mistaken for a junior high school student by Seoul University , so there was a scene at the orientation party.
With her sweet appearance, she was attracted by a senior who was present and wanted to take her to study abroad. However, before boarding the plane, the senior learned that there was no such person in the school.
not only failed to go abroad, but the next day, she received the news that her father had passed away.
It turned out that he had been suffering from cancer for many years. In order to pay for his study abroad fees, he spent all the money for medical treatment.
This heavy blow made Anna regretful. She vowed to change her mind and live a down-to-earth life.
In order to support her hearing-impaired mother, Anna found several part-time jobs at the same time. She no longer glanced at the beautiful shoes in the window and lived frugally.
is like pulled back to the ground from the clouds , who has lived so hard for five years.
Up to this point, it still seems to be a story of perseverance and resignation, but can a person with ambition and desire really be willing to accept it?
went to work in an art gallery, which became Anna's second life node.
The female boss is a young lady who has returned from studying abroad. She looks about the same age and looks as herself, but she leads a completely different life.
Here, Anna really knows what "the difference in the world" is.
The eldest lady seems to be very friendly, so Anna has been working hard.
But just like the rich man in "Parasite", this kind of friendliness is more like a kind of charity, tearing apart the true face of orderly hierarchy at any time.
One day, Anna received a message from her mother saying that she missed her, so she went to ask for leave from her boss, but what she received was a violent response.
The steward scolded her for being so lazy and that she deserved to live like this for the rest of her life. The eldest lady threw her passport on the ground and asked her to bend down to pick it up.
This humiliation awakened Anna’s extremely strong self-esteem.
That night, while on duty, she took away all the money, resume and passport in the drawer, and then angrily disappeared into the snowy night.
is like suddenly bursting out after being suppressed for many years. This section ignited many viewers. Some people in the barrage even reminded them of the pleasure of blowing up a building in "Fight Club".
Before high school, the heroine lived in a "status illusion" that she didn't understand herself. She would only blindly ask her parents for money based on instinct, and clamored to learn ballet and painting.
Then in the next five years of working life, was awakened by a splash of cold water. He blamed all the misfortunes around him on his "ignorance", which was self-atonement and resignation to fate.
And this resignation is another extreme - a complete blackening, embarking on the criminal path of impersonating the eldest lady's resume. From then on, by spinning lies, he gradually became a university professor and married a rich man.
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The moment you believe it,
lies will become reality.
I heard a secret, A real rich person is surrounded by at least three fake rich people.
Rich people are not fools, so those "counterfeit products" that can deceive them almost all have the same ability as the original one.
Anna knew very well that "Respect the clothes before respecting the person" is a secret social rule of the upper class -
If you want to become rich, you must first make yourself "look rich". The first step in
fraud is to change your appearance.
She rented a brand-name outfit and put on elaborate makeup to look radiant.
then became a cram school teacher for studying abroad with a forged resume through the senior sister who took her to the orientation meeting.
As American writer Paul Fussell wrote:
"Commodity logos have a totem-like magic. Once worn, they can confuse one's private identity with commercial success. And at that moment Become a character. ”
In the play, the director uses shoes as an element.
Comparing the pair of muddy leather shoes Anna wore when working as a worker and the high heels she wore when pretending to be a socialite, it seemed that she had transformed and lived a different life.
The audience couldn't help but sneer. Sure enough, a man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle.
Anna pretended to be her sister and "find a tutor for her younger brother", thereby gaining all kinds of experience in vain;
studied by herself at night and then taught students during the day.
The sight of her reading at night even made people feel inspirational.
is more like a cool drama, the heroine with fake academic qualifications actually teaches real students who are admitted to prestigious schools.
This makes many people lament that all she lacks is an academic degree , or in other words:
a good background.
Yes, this friend made a typo
Because she was well-organized and well-dressed, Anna was said to be the second generation of a prominent family.
So someone took a fancy to the connections she might have as a second generation, and took the initiative to introduce her to a better job -
to become a lecturer at an adult education college.
There, Anna met her future rich husband.
What should I do if I need to meet my parents before getting married? It doesn't matter, luxury goods are fake, and parents can be fake too.
I have to say that pretending to be a rich person depends on talent. Others will show some timidity when pretending to be rich, but Anna has none of it.
She carefully teaches the "fake parents", like a professional interviewer, with a mentality as stable as a dog.
This is all thanks to the wife of an American colonel Anna met when she was a child.
Mrs. taught her how to play poker and how to hide her cards so that others don't guess:
"Remember the poker face."
Just like Matthew Effect , Anna, who got the "fake resume", cheated all the way and reaped the rewards. There are more and more resources and opportunities.
contrasts with another scene in the play, which is even more ironic.
Anna sent her senior sister home. The senior sister pointed at the small and cramped room and lamented:
"Look, my room is very small. I have really worked hard to live, but the debt owed by my father has not been paid off."
" No one can guarantee that if you work hard, you will get the same reward. "
Through the words of this senior, the director alluded to the increasingly severe class solidification in South Korea.
In this regard, The Beijing News once reported on a questionnaire conducted by a Korean radio station. The results showed that 75% of the respondents believed that "wealth inequality in South Korea is very serious", and only 3 people thought that it was "not too serious". %.
This inequality is passed down from generation to generation, which is also the theme of "Anna":
The class divide.
Winner or loser, no one asked whether Anna’s first pot of gold came from unknown sources.
As for the senior who is more down-to-earth than her, with better academic qualifications and abilities, because of her humble background, no one has ever "raised her hand."
She believed in what society taught her to "work hard" and "struggle", and then she struggled alone for many years.
When I looked up, I saw a simple residence and shabby chairs and stools.
Does this only happen in Korea? of course not.
Whether in movies or in the real world, similar dramas are constantly happening.
Under the movie reviews of "Anna", many people mentioned another American drama with a similar plot: "The Fictional Anna".
The American drama "Fictional Anna"
The latter is adapted from real people.
The protagonist is Anna Delvey, a "fake socialite" who once dominated the New York social circle.
She was once thought to be a German heiress, but was actually the daughter of a truck driver.
American TV series "Fictional Anna"
Relying on the actor's spirit of "life is like a play, it all depends on acting", she mingled in the luxurious upper class society, mingled with real estate tycoons, rented private jets to attend major parties, and received advice from friends, hotels and banks. There, $275,000 was defrauded.
She almost succeeded in getting a $22 million loan to open an art club.
However, the scandal was exposed and she was taken to court. At this time, she had been cheating for five years.
Anna Delvey herself
This scandal shocked the entire Internet at that time, triggering various sighs: "The bold will be starved to death, and the timid will starve to death."
Just like the concept popular in the media "Ripley syndrome" , Anna Delvey repeatedly stated in interviews that she had done nothing wrong.
She just wants to take shots at rich people.
and thought that he was just prematurely and exaggeratedly promoting his unrealized entrepreneurial project -
and this is the true meaning of all business investments.
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Wherever there are birds singing,
there are also poisonous snakes hissing
The moment you believe it, lies will become reality.
But no matter how long you wear the mask, will it really grow on your face?
The audience likes Anna because she is not a criminal born with no sense of morality, but more like most of you and me across the screen.
There is a scene in the play where she encourages a hearing-impaired girl to speak boldly.
Anna said in sign language to the people in the audience, "You don't understand, you fools."
made the little girl laugh, which was the highlight of the whole play.
Many people praise Anna for her charming personality, but I think it is not only because they see that evil women also have a gentle side.
It was also because at that moment, Anna, as a commoner, completed the mockery of a group of rich people in the audience.
A smart person like Anna always thinks that she can fool others into applause.
But in the world of rich people, there are hidden dangers everywhere.
The first two episodes of "Anna" ended with her holding a grand wedding with the rich man, seemingly completing a class jump.
But there are some unusual clues in it.
For example, the weird little boy who suddenly broke in at the wedding.
He suffers from autism . He is nominally the "brother's son" of a wealthy man , but he illegally takes wedding photos with the couple.
Many netizens have begun to suspect that his actual identity may be the illegitimate son of a rich man.
During the first blind date, the fake sofa that Anna saw through, as well as the hidden history of the other party starting from scratch, seemed to hide some ulterior secrets.
No one knows whether this is a story of "a small deception meets a big deception" .
When I was watching "Anna", my mind kept thinking of another novel written by Maupassant, " The Necklace".
In the story, Mathilde, the wife of a young civil servant, is equally ambitious and unwilling to live an ordinary life.
was invited to a party, which made her very excited. She borrowed a diamond necklace from her rich friend and became the center of attention.
There are actually many people like Mathilde. They often do have something higher than ordinary people. They only need a necklace to be like a fish in water.
However, after the party, she found that her necklace was lost. For this reason, she could only borrow a loan shark, buy a new one and return it to her friend.
In order to pay off the debt, she worked part-time for others every day for ten years.
In the past ten years, she has grown old and her hands have become worn out. However, when I saw my old friend again, I learned that the lost necklace was actually a fake -
The rich woman friend never opened it and didn't know that the necklace that was returned was a real necklace.
Just like the metaphor of the necklace, the upper class life that seems glamorous on the surface may also be full of lies and fraud.
However, civilians who are refracted by the light of diamonds may have to bear ten years of real pain in order to join them.
In "Thirty Only", Mrs. Wang bought a fake "Water Lily" to fill the scene.
What impressed me deeply about Anna was her two faces.
One is when she is alone, it is a lifeless and tired face, as if she can no longer see the future at such a young age.
The other picture shows her glowing with anger when she was bragging to her classmates at school.
Compared to the real and boring life, the fabricated false story fascinated her more.
People like Anna rely on creating a perfect cover for themselves, drawing energy from the admiration of others and gaining a sense of security.
Many people love her and hate her, because essentially everyone is her.
As reported by Sanlian Life Weekly , Anna in the real story was eventually convicted of grand larceny and imprisoned.
But during the trial, in Manhattan Supreme Court, her defense attorney quoted a line from the hit song "New York, New York" that described her as a humble girl trying to make it in the big city:
"If I could make it here." If so, then I can succeed anywhere."
Anna Delvey's lawyer's defense at the trial made more people re-examine the fraudster:
"Anna is not content to be a bystander, she wants to Become a participant. Anna didn't wait for opportunities, she created them."
"We can all relate to this, There's a little bit of Anna in us all.
Crossing the class divide in one fell swoop. A huge temptation, but also a huge challenge.
In comparison, it seems much easier to get the first pot of gold through fraud.
The fact that "evil women" like Anna are sought after by the entire Internet is just the projection of this kind of anxiety from ordinary people.
To put it more nakedly, it is you and me who are evil-minded but not courageous, venting the evil in our hearts.
Everyone has a deep well in their hearts, because they all want to be respected, are unwilling to do so, and can hardly resist the temptation to become someone.
This just shows that I have not completely accepted my fate and lie down.
But perhaps in this era, the bigger problem facing "Annas" is how to accept that they are nobody.
Then still muster up the courage to touch real life again.
